Today, 2023-09-27, a new major version of Nutanix Move has been released and now it’s not only a VM migration tool which makes it possible to migrate VMs between environments with minimal downtime, but also a file migration tool since files can be migrated non Nutanix files servers to Nutanix Files. Both NFSv3 & SMBv2 and higher are supported file sharing protocols and Nutanix Files version 4.4.0 is supported.
The below picture explains the architecture of Move
Picture borrowed from Nutanix official web site – The Move User Guide.
In addition to the file migration capabilities 5.0 comes with support for additional guest operating systems & bug fixes.
The following migration types are supported with Nutanix Move:
- AHV to NC2 (on AWS/Azure)
- NC2 (on AWS/Azure) to AHV
- NC2 (on Azure) to NC2 (on Azure)
- Nutanix AHV to
- Nutanix AHV
- AWS EC2
- Microsoft Azure Cloud
- NC2 (AWS & Azure)
- NC2 (AWS & Azure) to AHV
- NC2 (on Azure) to NC2 (on Azure)
- Microsoft Hyper-V to
- Hyper-V to AHV
- Hyper-V to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- Hyper-V to NC2 on AW
- AWS EC2 to
- AHV
- VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- NC2 on AWS
- Microsoft Azure Cloud to:
- AHV
- VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- NC2 on Azure
- VMware ESXi on legacy infrastructure to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- VMware ESXi to:
- AHV
- ESXi on legacy infrastructure to VMware ESXi on Nutanix
- Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS
- NC2 on Microsoft Azure
You can upgrade to Move 5.0 from the following previous Move versions 4.7.0, 4.8.0, 4.9.0, plus 4.9.1
See Nutanix Move user Guide for hypervisor, AOS, Prism Central and guest operation system support information.
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